Can you imagine if Arkham Origins actually looked as good as the above image?

General News

It seems like we just had some PSN maintenance, but there will be more tomorrow (Thursday) starting at 9AM PST/12PM EST that is expected to last an hour. Sign in now to avoid issues tomorrow. [Twitter]

Beatshapers’ PlayStation Vita game that they’re collaborating with Housemarque on will be unveiled next week, while their PS4 title will be unveiled at a later date. [Press Release]

Marcus Nilsson of Ghost Games said, “If people would come to me and say, you know… make [Need for Speed: Underground 3] with Frostbite 3 with exactly the same features and you’ll go back and sell 15 million copies, then yes, I would build that game. I would. But it’s not that simple.” If only it were that simple. [Source]

Another entry in the Dead Space franchise may be unknown, but Frank Gibeau, President of EA Labels, said that “it’s not out of rotation” and “we still have faith in that franchise.” [Source]

When Batman: Arkham Origins launches for PS3 on October 25th, it will be a Day 1 Digital title as well. [Source]

While you can find a PES 2014 demo right now, the “proper” one won’t be released until September 10th in North America and September 11th in Europe. [Twitter]

Mark Rubin of Infinity Ward explains why they do background fixes in Call of Duty: “We’re making changes that they don’t know about because we want to see the changes happen without [affecting] people’s sort of free perceptions on what they think has happened, so sometimes we stealth in changes to design and see how they react.” “Without saying ‘hey we just did this, what do you think?’ and we’ll get responses ‘oh it’s tons better’ or ‘oh my god, it’s so much worse, you broke it’. A lot of times those answers aren’t as honest as they should be, so we stealth in updates to get more honest answers.” [Source]

New Videos

I have a feeling this Rayman Legends launch trailer is going to be legend… wait for it: